Frances Pinnock

Frances Pinnock (b, 1990, Bristol, UK) lives and works in London. She earned a BA in Modelmaking from Arts University Bournemouth in 2014, going on to train and work in bespoke leatherwork and hand sewn shoe making, while pursuing her own practice. Here she developed many of the technical skills that now underpin her work. In 2022 she received the Leverhulme Arts Scholarship to study for an MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. She is a QEST Scholar and recipient of awards from Arts Council England and the Gilbert Bayes Charitable Trust.  Recent exhibitions include This Country, Crafts Council Gallery, London, UK (2024) ; TEFAF Maastricht, NL (2024); Material Beings, Cromwell Place, London, UK (2023) and FOG Design + Art, San Francisco, USA (2022).

Working compositionally and intuitively across sculpture, drawing and painting, Frances Pinnock’s work explores the interplay between the temporal and the material, between the conscious and the unconscious, and between the states of focused attention and reverie. As the body retains tensions, emotions, memories and dreams, so her works act as a holding place for reflection and revisitation.